Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect, painter, and theorist who wrote the influential architecture treatise ‘Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective.’ Although Serlio’s buildings were not influential, his publication exerted immense influence throughout Europe.

Nov 17, 2020 · Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554 CE) was an Italian Renaissance architect, painter, and scholar. His most successful building design is the classically-inspired Château d'Ancy-le-Franc in France. Serlio's...

Inspired by the often eccentric designs of contemporary Mannerist architecture, Serlio combined rough elements with the more traditional treatment of the Doric order to stress the difference between nature and artifice.

The Digital Serlio Project presents Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library's unparalleled holdings of the works of Sebastiano Serlio including his published works in multiple editions, and the manuscript for his unpublished masterwork, On Domestic Architecture.

A sixteenth-century Italian architect and theoretician, Sebastiano Serlio was influential in canonizing the classical orders of architecture as the author of seven books on architecture, collectively known as Tutte l'opere d'architettura.

Although Serlio began his career as a painter, he became famous as an architect and architectural theorist. After working in architecture in Rome and Venice, he moved to France and the court at Fontainebleau.

Title: Serlio's five books on architecture. Author: Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau) Publisher: Published Antwerp by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, Aelst 1502–1550 Brussels) Publisher: Mayken Verhulst (Netherlandish, 1518–1593/96) Printer: Gillis Coppens van Diest (Flemish) Published in: Antwerp. Date ...

Jun 27, 2018 · Serlio, Sebastiano (1475–1554). Italian architect, theorist, and painter. He is remembered primarily as the compiler of L'Architettura (published in instalments (1537–75) and collected in one volume in 1584).

Architect and theorist Sebastiano Serlio was born in Bologna on 6 September 1475. First trained as a painter, Serlio moved to Rome in 1514 where he studied architecture with Baldassare Peruzzi.